A British company is taking all its employees on free leave (Representational image)
A British recruiting agency is giving its employees leave as a “thank you” gesture for working through the pandemic. Cardiff-based Yoke Recruitment has announced that it is moving all 55 of its staff members and “not just the top billers”, to Tenerife, the largest in Spain’s Canary Islands, off the coast of northwest Africa. -April inclusive company holiday. The company said this paid-for holiday comes on the back of “historic 2021 results”. The holiday in a hotel in Tenerife will last for four days.
“Yolks Folk have left for Tenerife. That’s everyone. Not just the top billers or those who played a role in our historic 2021 results, but everyone else,” the company said in a post on LinkedIn.
Stating that it could be one of the first Cardiff-based companies to offer this kind of leave to its employees, Yoke Recruitment said it was made possible because “everything we do internally and externally are bright, bold, strive to be better at that.” The company continued, “Our aim is to create a culture where everyone wins! Which means no one is left behind on this all-inclusive company holiday. Can’t stay.”
Responding to the post, a user commented, “Now that’s how to take care of your employees.”
according to a bbc report, the company estimates that vacation expenses for a four-day break will exceed £100,000 (about Rs 1 crore).
Yoke’s Chief Commercial Officer Pawan Arora said: “2020 was a really tough time for our entire industry – we went from the jobs market to going into overdrive. Our employees have gone on a journey, from working remotely Up to the hybrid. Back to the remote… so we just wanted to put our arms around everyone and say thank you for the past two years.”
The report also cited figures from the Office for National Statistics, the UK’s largest independent producer of official figures, and said there were 1.17 million job openings in October 2021, nearly 400,000 more than before the pandemic. Between July and September last year, around 2.2 million people started a new job, indicating a return to normalcy in the market.
Yoke Recruitment also announced new vacancies in the same LinkedIn post.
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